From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
alan@linux.intel.com, hch@infradead.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: fanotify as syscalls
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:27:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090916122723.GE29359@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090916120523.GA12830@ioremap.net>
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> It all sounds good and simple, but what if you will need modify command
> with new arguments? Instead of adding new typed option you will need to
> add another syscall. I already did that for inotify but via ioctl and
> pretty sure there will be such need for much wider fanotify some time in
> the future.
Ew, that's unpleasant (adding to inotify via ioctl).
You're right, it's not easy to add new syscalls, but it's not that
hard either.
I'd forgotten about Linus' strace argument. That's a good one.
Of course everything should be a syscall by that argument :-)
And strace can trace some ioctls and setsockopts. (But it's never
pretty to see isatty() showing in strace as SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE :-)
Strace never shows structure of reads and writes to devices, so
although efficient (you can batch), it's not nice for tracing.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-16 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 5:25 [PATCH 1/8] networking/fanotify: declare fanotify socket numbers Eric Paris
2009-09-11 5:26 ` [PATCH 2/8] vfs: introduce FMODE_NONOTIFY Eric Paris
2009-09-11 5:26 ` [PATCH 3/8] fanotify: fscking all notification system Eric Paris
2009-09-11 5:26 ` [PATCH 4/8] fanotify:drop notification if they exist in the outgoing queue Eric Paris
2009-09-11 5:26 ` [PATCH 5/8] fanotify: merge notification events with different masks Eric Paris
2009-09-11 5:26 ` [PATCH 6/8] fanotify: userspace socket Eric Paris
2009-09-11 5:26 ` [PATCH 7/8] fanotify: userspace can add and remove fsnotify inode marks Eric Paris
2009-09-11 5:26 ` [PATCH 8/8] fanotify: send events to userspace over socket reads Eric Paris
2009-09-11 14:08 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-11 14:15 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-11 14:22 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-11 14:32 ` Daniel Walker
2009-09-11 14:32 ` [PATCH 1/8] networking/fanotify: declare fanotify socket numbers Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-11 16:04 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-11 18:46 ` David Miller
2009-09-11 19:33 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-11 20:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-11 21:13 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-11 21:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-11 21:51 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-12 9:41 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-09-14 0:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-14 14:07 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-09-14 19:08 ` fanotify as syscalls Eric Paris
2009-09-15 20:16 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-09-15 21:54 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-15 23:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-16 1:26 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-16 7:52 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-16 9:48 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-16 12:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-17 20:07 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-18 20:52 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-18 22:00 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-19 3:04 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-21 20:04 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-21 20:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 21:27 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-21 22:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 23:09 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-21 23:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-21 22:18 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-09-21 23:12 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-22 14:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-09-22 15:31 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-22 16:04 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-09-23 8:39 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-09-23 11:20 ` hch
2009-09-23 15:35 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-09-23 21:58 ` hch
2009-09-23 11:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-23 15:42 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-09-23 15:51 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-23 21:56 ` hch
2009-09-23 15:26 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-09-23 15:45 ` Tvrtko Ursulin
2009-09-23 17:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-09-22 16:11 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-22 16:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-22 23:43 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-09-22 21:06 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-22 21:38 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2009-09-16 10:41 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-16 11:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-16 12:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-16 12:56 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-16 15:53 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-16 21:49 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-16 22:33 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-16 11:30 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-09-16 12:05 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2009-09-16 12:27 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-09-17 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-17 17:35 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-09-17 18:53 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-22 0:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-09-22 0:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-09-11 21:21 ` [PATCH 1/8] networking/fanotify: declare fanotify socket numbers jamal
2009-09-11 21:42 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-11 22:52 ` jamal
2009-09-14 0:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-14 1:26 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-14 13:15 ` jamal
2009-09-12 9:47 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
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